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The Doctor

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Dec 12, 2009, 10:05:59 AM12/12/09
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REcall the Silurians were reptiles from the prehistoric age.

Wonder if V got the idea of Aliens as reptiles from Doctor Who.


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Daibhid Ceanaideach

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Dec 12, 2009, 10:52:58 AM12/12/09
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On 12 Dec 2009, doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote:

> REcall the Silurians were reptiles from the prehistoric age.
>
> Wonder if V got the idea of Aliens as reptiles from Doctor Who.

Yeah. Apart from, you know, the Silurians not being aliens. Or the fact
that reptilian aliens were a cliche before the Ice Warriors.

If there is an original source for humanoid reptiles in fiction, it's
probably Robert E. Howard's Serpent Men (1929).

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John Elliott

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Dec 12, 2009, 11:11:39 AM12/12/09
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Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidc...@aol.com> wrote:
: If there is an original source for humanoid reptiles in fiction, it's
: probably Robert E. Howard's Serpent Men (1929).

It occurred to me, when reading Clark Ashton Smith's "The Double Shadow",
that the Whoniverse Earth undoubtedly _would_ have artefacts similar to the
one in the story, from the time of the serpent-men "whose primordial
continent had sunk aeons before the lifting of Hyperborea from the ooze."

(As an aside, Avyctes in that story is so GenreBlind it verges on
WhatAnIdiot:

"But the object of the evocation was not named; nor was there any clue
to the nature or identity of that which would come in answer to the
rites. And moreover there was no corresponding rite of exorcism nor
spell of dismissal."

So he goes ahead and casts the spell anyway, with not-so-hilarious
consequences.)

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The Doctor

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Dec 13, 2009, 12:53:06 PM12/13/09
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In article <Xns9CDFA14F1FD86da...@130.133.1.4>,

Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidc...@aol.com> wrote:
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>If there is an original source for humanoid reptiles in fiction, it's
>probably Robert E. Howard's Serpent Men (1929).
>

So this may have inspired the Silurians. I will have to read it.

solar penguin

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Dec 14, 2009, 7:48:23 AM12/14/09
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The Doctor wrote:

> I will have to read it.

You say that you'll read it, but you won't, will you? It would mean
taking too much time away from your precious Usenet, and there's no
way you'd let yourself do that!

The Doctor

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Dec 14, 2009, 11:12:15 AM12/14/09
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In article <a8e2dc35-fe00-482e...@d10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,

No need to flame. Usenet only represents 1% of what I do.
Besides, discussing Humanoid reptiles prevents
inflammatory exchange. And there are plenty of DW ideas to discuss.

solar penguin

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Dec 21, 2009, 2:17:49 AM12/21/09
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The Doctor wrote:

>
> No need to flame.

That wasn't intended as a flame, but as a simple observation.

> Usenet only represents 1% of what I do.

The would mean you spend _less_ than 15 minutes a day on Usenet. I
can't believe that.

> Besides, discussing Humanoid reptiles prevents
> inflammatory exchange.

Not necessarily, otherwise, everyone would discuss them all the time
to keep everything calm.

> And there are plenty of DW ideas to discuss.

Let's see... Why have we never had a story set entirely in the time of
the Silurian civilisation? The Doctor always visits other times and
civilisations to save them from invasions, tyranny, etc. Why not this
one?

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